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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp details a group of memorable supporting players playing soldiers of fortune contracted to destroy the luxury liner Argonautica. But a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who refuses to leave the boat. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the main character fighting a musical showdown with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor plays a fighter-inspired nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up trimaran in this high-cost science fiction adventure, set in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have submerged the world. Everyone is hunting for fabled solid ground while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his gang of chain-smoking pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are redeemed by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of a famous notorious disasters. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a film-maker who manages to twist a casualties of over a thousand into an inspiring narrative of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a ocean liner journeying from Mexico to the Old World in 1933. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film includes a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who deliver the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an blast and Robert Stack's partner (the actress) is trapped in their quarters in this gripping early catastrophe film. Can the main character and a brave technician (Woody Strode) save her before the ship sinks? Curious detail: the fictional ship is played by the famous European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star Agatha Christie whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt half the cast being killed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors act as a married couple trying to get over the grief of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a trip in the Pacific, where they recover another actor from a foundering ship. Costly error! The director's tense movie is fundamentally a horror film at sea, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, transporting furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into employing a dilapidated "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the unconventional vein of his own previous work. Naturally, the ship's Scottish captain and team trick the main characters for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his suspense story a state-of-the-nation tilt in this nerve-shredding tale of bombs placed on a luxury liner, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris play explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a emotional depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of the author's literary work is one of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to direct his group through the flipped vessel to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy history of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a mature exemplary performance in one-man show as a person fighting to endure in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the main setting, is harmed in a impact with an lost shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star does sterling work in part of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the captain of an commercial transport commandeered by African raiders off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), delivering a remarkable film debut as the raider leader in this filmmaker's suspense film, based on true stories. When the concluding moment fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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